In its electronic message board for people who have donated to its conservation fund and can leave messages, certain words were banned, such as Vindicate June 4 (平反六四）, 89 pro-democracy movement（八九民運), Down with Communist Party (共產黨下台). Only after it was revealed by the media did the Park abandon the censorship. But it refused to apologize, saying that it was act of the lower ranking staff without knowledge of the senior management or interference from the Government.

When all the blame is heaped on the lower ranking staff, you know there is something wrong.

And, when even an amusement park run by a finically independent not-for-profit organization practices self censorship to court the good will of Beijing, what can you say about this city’s future?

My friend praised highly the band “Hungry Ghosts” whose music is simply “enjoyable”, he said. A tourist couple from Germany passed by, who were very much attracted by the voices of “Ng Yin x HOLICK”. Who are they, they asked me.

Ellen Loo was also good, at her ease and performing to her best.

Street music is not common in a metropolitan city like Hong Kong where it is extremely difficult for artists to find public space for performance and they easily become the target of complaint for creating “noise”. Yes, in this city, music is regarded by the authorities and some residents here as “noise”. That is why this street music series, supported by Hong Kong Arts Centre, and orchestrated by a local veteran musican Kung Chi Shing, is so much worth support. The popularity of the show, especially among the young, shows that Hong Kong desperately needs more of this. It gives the city some vigor and dynamics when it is being stifled by the red influence from communist China.

The street music show is on once a month. It will be the 37th show next month scheduled to take place on 23 June (Saturday) at the entrance of Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wanchai, from 6:30pm to 9pm. Don’t miss it.

It resonates with me deeply as many features of the House are just like the old house in Guangzhou where I once resided in, such as the big square brick flooring, the tile roofing and the exterior wood door. Mandarin’s House dated back to 1869, with subsequent expansions by Zheng Guanying, a legendary figure and a celebrity in late Qing Dynasty who has written the masterpiece Words of Warning in Times of Prosperity in this house. Zheng’s fourth son, Zheng Jingkang, is the first generation of photographers in Communist China. The Mao Zedong portrait hanging at the Tiananmen Square is his work.

What we see of Mandarin’s House today is a result of conservation and renovation by Macau Government. The House was largely destroyed around the middle of last century when Zheng’s descendants moved out, leaving it occupied by many tenants and hence in a state of negligence and destitution. As visitor, you are asked to make online reservation in advance. My advice is, this is not a popular spot so it is not necessary.

For visitor information, check out here.

I went to its highest revolving restaurant “cafe 360” in Macau Tower (338m high) for buffet dinner. The food was fine for MOP 328, not something that I will rave about. It is the view from the restaurant and the overall ambience that has impressed me. From the restaurant there is a really stunning view of the city lights and landscape.By the way, I waited for half an hour for a bus going to Macau Tower. Taking taxis may be the best way to get to the Tower.

Another heavyweight exhibition to be staged in Hong Kong is “A Lofty Retreat from the Red Dust: The Secret Garden of Emperor Qianlong”, from 22 June to 14 October, in Hong Kong Museum of Art. It will feature 77 sets of painting and calligraphy, furniture, mural paintings, architectural elements and religious art on loan from the Palace Museum, Beijing. The Garden was located in the northeastern corner of the Forbidden City, built by Emperor Qianlong (reigning from 1735 to 1796) for his enjoyment in retirement. For details, pls see here.

So this has become my route:

Ma On Shan Village (馬鞍山村), Mao Ping (茅坪), Mui Tze Lam(梅子林), Chevalier Garden (富安花園) / Tai Shui Hang (大水坑)

To arrive at Ma On Shan Village, the starting point, the easiest way is to take taxi from Ma On Shan MTR station (HK$40). Tell the driver that you want to get to the terminus of the village bus (NR84). There is a staircase next to the terminus. Follow it and then turn right. After about 20 minute walk, you will come to an intersection with a pavilion. Go the direction of Tai Shui Tseng (大水井) and Gilwell Camp（基維爾營). Soon, at your left, lies a plateau. Walk to its edge and you can have this open view: Follow the original track. At the next intersection, turn right and choose “Mui Tsz Lam” (梅子林)。If you turn left, the path will lead to Pak Kong (北港) in Sai Kung. This is actually the middle point of the old path which is at least a century old, and one of the best preserved old paths in Hong Kong. HK Government has officially named it Mui Tse Lam – Pak Kong Old Path (梅子林北港古徑), stretching between Mui Tse Lam in Ma On Shan and Pak Kong in Sai Kung.

The veteran hiking couple is right. This path is so enjoyable – green, peaceful and reminiscent of the past. Made of irregular stones, the path is preserved like a hundred years ago. Former villagers had created this path for going between Ma On Shan and Sai Kung using the stones they could find along the way, and amazingly this we can still use today. Going forward, you will pass by the abandoned Mao Ping village and come to Mui Tze Lam village.

Legacy of Mao Ping village

The concrete Mui Tze Lam Road(梅子林路), next to the village, with hardly any traffic, will lead you to Chevalier Garden, a housing estate. There is a bus terminus there. Or you can continue walking to Tai Shui Hang MTR station.

The whole route is about 3 to 3.5 hours.

It must be mentioned that Mui Tsz Lam is famous for its Feng Shui Woods. Supporting 72 fung shui wood species, by far the greatest number in Hong Kong, it stands out from other Fung Shui Woods. Ancestors in Hong Kong had planted Fung Shui woods around their villages, for bringing in good Fung Shui as well as for protection of their homes from flooding, mudslides, and typhoons. These Fung Shui Woods usually have high ecological value. The Mui Tsz Lam part of the Mui Tse Lam – Pak Kong Old Path, belongs to Mui Tsz Lam Fung Shui Woods. It is why the walk there is so green and lush.

Ping Chau has been designated one of the eight Geo-Areas of the Hong Kong National Geopark, and a Marine Park in Hong Kong, occupying a sea area of about 270 hectares enclosing the island. It is said that Tung Ping Chau is only the divable site in Hong Kong, with its rich species of coral and algae.

Historically, Tung Ping Chau was a fishing island. At its peak, there were 1500 inhabitants who had  their own local dialect call Ping Chau Language. Due to its remote location, the island is no longer inhabited.

The visit to Tung Ping Chau has got to be a day trip. There is only a ferry going to and returning from Tung Ping Chau on Saturday and Sunday : 9am departing Ma Liu Shui pier near the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and 5:15pm returning from Tung Ping Chau to the pier.

The ferry time is about 1.5 hours. Return ticket fare: HK$90. So you will have about 7 hours on the island, plenty of time to walk around. There are two restaurants on the island, to the right of the Tung Ping Chau pier. You can have lunch there.

How to get there:

a queue forms well before 9am for boarding the ferry to Tung Ping Chau at Ma Liu Shui pier

Take the exit going to Science Park at University MTR Station of the East Rail line. Follow the sign of ferry pier for going to Ma Liu Shui pier. Midway, you will need to go under and pass two tunnels before reaching the other side to arrive at the pier. Just follow the crowd. Many people go to the pier for ferry to Tung Ping Chau or other outlying islands during the weekend.

The ferry starts at 9am at Ma Liu Shui pier. The return journey is a bit tricky. The official time is 5:15pm. But when I was there last time, I was able to board the ferry at 4:45pm which started at about 4:50pm. The ferry company, it is believed, sent another smaller ferry to fetch the other people at 5:15pm.

The voting place is shabby. Just a carton box surrounding a table where I voted. And then I put the vote into a white envelope and sealed it with the tape.

I actually wanted to vote online in the morning but the site was extremely slow and so I gave up. I later learnt that the site was down because of repeated hacking from mainland (within one second the site received 1 million hits). That was also why the main polling site at PolyU had a long queue – people could not vote online or through smart phones so they swarmed the polling stations. There were only three major polling stations with the PolyU one most central in location. The latter was full of people all day long. When I left the station at 8:30pm, people were still coming, after a long day.

It was both a humbling and uplifting experience. We Hong Kong people cannot have a say in our city’s future and elect our Chief Executive, so we look to this civil referendum for a say and even that, was hard. But it has stiffened people’s will to fight back. Yesterday a total of 45,000 had voted. Voting continues today due to strong demand and the fact that hacking of the polling site has stopped a fair number of people from joining this civil referendum.

Tomorrow the 1200 strong Election Committee will cast their votes for the next Chief Executive of Hong Kong. All the rest of the Hong Kong population is barred from it. This is not an election. This is brutally taking away the rights of Hong Kong people.

And who is likely to win in this fake “election”? CY Leung, a fake and tricky guy who once commented that why Deng Xiaoping was not the first Chinese to be awarded Nobel Peace Prize, and who has long been rumored to be an underground communist member. Whether he is truly an underground communist is not important. What is important is he has been behaving like a communist who is loyal to his “motherland”, supporting suppressing freedom for the “harmony” of the city and the country. (There has been strong evidence that he advocated as a member of the Executive Council, the decision making body of the Chief Executive, for cutting short a commercial station’s license period because of its fierce criticism against government.)

It is him that the Central government has given the blessings and has been canvassing for among the small circle of 1200 members of Election Committee. So if he is elected by the small circle people, what would happen? CY Leung surely would put his “country” first before Hong Kong’s interests. And he has to reward the Central government’s help of course for putting him in the Chief Executive seat. Hong Kong is set to fall into communist control.

Since Beijing giving its signal, all the pro-mainland Election Committee interest groups, as expected, have expressed their support for Leung and a Chinese newspaper was found yesterday turning an article of a commentator from supporting neither CY Leung nor Henry Tang (another establishment camp candidate) into supporting CY Leung. How daring and unscrupulous is that?!!!! Hong Kong’s nightmare has just begun.

There is a strong feeling in the city that “White Horror” age has come. Hong Kong is back to the 1997 nightmare. I have heard people talking about selling their properties and moving overseas if CY Leung wins. Even the Election Committee members are scared. Tomorrow is the secret vote. They wonder if they will be spied on and found out if they do not vote for CY Leung. I personally heard an Election Committee member telling me about his worry. So the Hong Kong Government came out yesterday saying that they will strengthen the security in the voting venue by putting a cover on the voting box and putting in more staff for monitoring the voting.

What I know is, if CY Leung is elected, I will go to the streets with thousands of Hong Kong people.

Hong Kong is cursed. I am crying for its destiny.

I hate the communist rule which does not respect individuals’ rights and freedom and am furious at the way our Hong Konger’s rights and freedom of speech have been stamped on. One country two systems is dead. long dead.

The airline called Peach will also operate international flights between Osaka and Seoul starting 8 May 2012, and between Osaka and Taipei in the second quarter.

I went hiking in Sai Kung last weekend (18 February) and to my great delight and surprise, I saw bellflowers bloom on the hillside of the 408m-high Tai Cham Koi (大枕蓋). A starkly beautiful scene.My hiking route:

Sheung Yiu （上窰）- Tai Cham Koi – Luk Wu Country Trail （鹿湖郊遊徑） – Tsak Yue Wu （鲫鱼湖）

Hours taken: 4

How to get to starting point:

Take bus No. 94 or mini bus No. 7 from Sai Kung and get off at Sheung Yiu. Walk ahead along the Tai Mong Tsai Road (大網仔路) and pass by the the sign saying “MacLehose Trail Starting Point” until you see the roundabout which is an intersection between Man Yee Road (萬宜路) and Sai Wan Road西灣路). Turn to your left,  and you will see a flight of stairs up a concrete wall. Follow the stairs and all the way up, you will be on the way to Tai Cham Koi.

Initially, the climb is a bit hard as the path is filled with small broken stones and sands. Once this is overcome, the climb is generally easy. You can see High Island Reservoir and its surrounding scenic landscape on the way. The reservoir was opened in 1978 to alleviate the water shortage problem facing the city in those days.

At the peak, stands this landmark with a wonderful bird’s eye view of mountains and seas. From here, you have the first glimpse of colorful bellflowers lying in the field.

Go in the north direction (i.e. the path at your right hand side) after leaving the peak, and carry on. Bellflowers, hidden in the field, or waving at you at the side of the trail, will continue to attract your attention.Not long,  you will find Luk Wu Country Trail lying perpendicularly to the trail you walk on. A sign is put up at the junction indicating the direction of Tsak Yue Wu and Sai Wan Road. Choose Tsak Yue Wu and go downhill all the way before you come to Pak Tam Road (北潭路） where you can take bus or minibus back to Sai Kung.

If you are in HK on 19 February (Sunday), join me in the rally against the Scheme.

If you can read Chinese, this is my personal statement against the Scheme.

If you cannot, here are the succinct reasons why I am, with so many other Hong Kongers, so much against the scheme:

1. HK is such a small place with congested roads. The scheme will only lead to more pollution and congestion on the road. What is more, the car fuel standards in the mainland are lower than those in HK. More mainland cars on HK’s roads can only worsen the already very poor air quality here, not to mention the congestion on the road.

2. HK does not need more cars. It needs better use of its precious land and build facilities such as cycle paths for citizens here to have a better quality of life. While cities like Amsterdam are striving for providing more and better public transport and cycle paths for its citizens, Hong Kong government is stupid enough to go against the trend by putting more cars on the road, just for the politically correct move of “integrating Hong Kong with mainland”.

3. With the public transport (MTR) so developed and the city small enough, where is the need for the mainlanders to travel by car in the city?

4. The Scheme aims to encourage more mainland tourists to Hong Kong. But evidence has shown that the influx of mainland tourists is doing harm to the city. We do not need more mainland tourists!

5. Mainland drivers’ reckless way of driving and their left-hand driving vehicles compared with Hong Kong’s right-hand driving ones raise concern over road safety. Here’s what a reader wrote to me today on my Chinese blog:

Hi,
I share a piece for you to support your move. This morning (18 Feb 2012) at around 6:21 am. I was driving on the fast lane in Aberdeen Tunnel towards Causeway direction. At the tunnel exit, I saw a BMW X-series private car bearing a China license plate on slow lane was resversing backward. He missed the Causeway exit and was making a ridiculous reversing. This is not uncommon in China. I saw this first time in Hong Kong. Please ask Transport Department to share the CCTV recording to give you this evident to support your protest statement.

At present, there are already 2,000 mainland registered cars on Hong Kong’s roads. The scheme would allow more private cars to travel between Hong Kong and Guangdong Province.

In the first phase of the pilot scheme, Hong Kong drivers can apply for a seven-day permit to drive in Guangdong from March 30 this year. In the second phase, each day up to 50 cars from Guangdong Province can enter Hong Kong. The government maintains that the timetable for the implementation of the second phase is yet to set. But you know, once the first phase is implemented, do you think the second phase will not go ahead?

the crowd near the finishing line in Victoria Park

It was because the run was mostly on the highway and sometimes in the tunnel. We as runners didn’t get close to pedestrians or the normal life of Hong Kong. I ended up seeing concrete most of the time while running, either of the bridges, highways or the high rise buildings in the distance.

I was hopeful that I could see some of the harbor in Central. I was disappointed. We were running in Central’s reclaimed area, with a construction site boarded up where the old star ferry pier once stood. It is construction and redevelopment that has become the signature face of this city.

And this year, I was lucky. I only needed to get up at 6pm for the half-marathon which started at 8:45am. Last year I got up at 4am for the 10km run which started at 6am. It was and is not a friendly race.

Running a marathon should be challenging and fun. In HK, challenging as it may be, there is not much fun.

Look, as a runner, you have to be careful that the pedestrians, eager to cross the road,  may not listen to the police and just run into you in the busy area of Causeway Bay.

I do not want to delve into the reasons, the history and psychology that may lead to the conflict. While I think it is absolutely wrong to disrespect people and label each other as “dog” or “locust”, I am most concerned that Hong Kong is losing its character, press freedom, academic freedom, and all in all its value system.

In other words, I feel that Hong Kong is becoming another Tibet, where the immigration/strong presence of newcomers not only dominates its economy but also change its economic, cultural and social fabrics.

Let me lay bare these facts to you:

- In 2010, 37% of the babies born in Hong Kong are of mainland parents; in 2011 the year of dragon, the first baby born in Hong Kong is of mainland parents.

- In 2011, mainlanders accounted for 28% of the total number of transactions and 37% of the total transaction amounts in the primary property market.

- In 2011, Hong Kong received over 25M mainland tourists, representing over 60% of the total number of tourists of the year.

- In Hong Kong’s universities, mandarin was heard spoken everywhere, with many mainland students either being offered scholarships to study here or whose families are rich enough to afford them studying here. Mainland scholars who have obtained their doctorates overseas also heavily fill the faculty rank in the local higher education sector.

Here’s what I see and hear:

- In Hong Kong’s main shopping areas, there remain only cosmetics shops, jewelers, luxury watch shops, and pharmacies which sell baby formula, all of which cater to the needs and purchasing power of mainland tourists. The smaller / traditional shops are dying due to soaring rents.

- The simplified Chinese is everywhere, even in supermarkets. (To date, I cannot read / refuse reading books in simplified Chinese – they are eye sores, a distorted writing system that is in force in the mainland for political reasons only.)

- Hong Kong’s housing price is among the world’s highest, with cash from mainland buoying the local property market.

- Uncivilized behavior is easily seen. A friend of mine told me she actually saw a mainland parent allow her child to pee in the middle of a shopping mall. As a mother, she also told me she genuinely felt lucky that she became a mother some years ago, not now otherwise she would have to fight with mainland mums for maternity service and school places for her kid.

- A mainland scholar in a Hong Kong University just caught himself in a scandal for publicizing a survey of the Chief Executive hopefuls even before the survey was properly done and was completed. Allegedly he wanted to curry the favor of one of the hopefuls.

- A Hong Kong based Beijing official recently repeatedly lambasted a scholar in The University of Hong Kong for “serving the interests of a specific political group” after this scholar’s public polling recently shows that a low proportion of Hong Kongers identify themselves as Chinese, and this same scholar proposed an online election of the Chief Executive involving all the residents.

- 440 people were arrested by the Hong Kong police for protests and demonstrations in 2011, compared to 57 in the previous year.

- The press has been having a hard time conducting interviews and doing reports in the new government headquarters at Tamar because of strict rules and unfriendly press arrangements and security guards.

Can the Hong Kong government see what is happening to the city? Of course it can. It just refuses to see. An unelected Chief Executive and government, they do not need to listen to the people, anyway. They need only to look up to Beijing. Next month, the government will implement a new policy that would allow mainland drivers from Guangdong Province to drive and travel in Hong Kong. Are they sane? Is Hong Kong not polluted and congested enough? Are there not enough mainland tourists? With Hong Kong reachable by MTR, where is the need to travel in Hong Kong by car?

If you can find some hope for Hong Kong, let me know.

Next door, Nan Lian Garden is a public park designed and managed by Chi Lin Nunnery. It is also in the ancient gardening style of Tang dynasty. The park is beautifully landscaped with trees, timber structures and rocks of special shapes and formation. Such a beautiful park, however, has aroused public anger because of the despotic management style – you are not allowed to eat, even snack, in the park, for example. I personally saw a foreigner being stopped from eating nuts from a small box by a security guard on the day I visited the park. Here, you are constantly under the watchful eyes of guards.

There is a sign at the entrance to the tea house, saying that if you are not a patron, you shouldn’t enter the area. It is not a welcoming park.

I have to recommend the vegetarian restaurant inside though. A very nice place to sit in with decent vegetarian dim sum and food.

the restaurant is behind the waterfall

A set meal per person is HK$120, with four courses. I liked it. This dish of vegetarian dumpling dim sum – thrumbs up.

To be consistent with its “despotic” management style, no photography is allowed in the restaurant and there is minimum charge of HK$80 for lunch and HK$40 for afternoon tea. Shouldn’t a Buddhist related place have more compassion?

Besides the restaurant and the tea house, there is a cafe. A small cup of coffee sells for HK$12 and tastes good. How to get there:

Exit C2 of Diamond Hill MTR station.

Check out this link. It allows you to shift between the two train systems and gives you some visual concept about the train connection between the two cities.

Train from Hong Kong to Shenzhen (part one)

Train from Hong Kong to Shenzhen (part two)

MTR East Rail line is the line going to Lo Wu / Lok Ma Chau, from where you can cross border to Shenzhen and be connected by Shenzhen’s underground.

The East Rail line train service is very frequent, just like all other MTR lines. In the peak hours of weekdays, say 8-9am or 6-7pm, the train can be every minute. But do avoid peak hours – too crowded. Other times, it is about every 2-3 minutes. So checking the train timetable is a bit pointless. Just go and take the train on the day of your travel.

East Rail line’s starting point is Hung Hom. From Hung Hom to Lo Wu, train time is 45 minutes, and the ticket fare is HK$34. The first train starts at 0530, and the last train at 2307.

Kowloon Tong station platform for the East Rail line

If you are not starting from Hung Hom, it is likely that you use Kowloon Tong station, a major transfer station, which is two stops from Hung Hom. From Kowloon Tong to Lo Wu, it is 37 minutes and the ticket fare is HK$34. The first train starts at 0536, and the last train at 2313.

If you want to use the less popular station Lok Ma Chau for crossing border to Shenzhen, the train line is still East Rail and the starting station is all the same – Hung Hom. The journey time from Hung Hom to Lok Ma Chau is 48 minutes, and the ticket fare is the same as that to Lo Wu, i.e. HK$34. The first train starts at 0535, and the last train at 2135.

The timetable of the last train is tied up with the border closing time. Lo Wu border closes at midnight, and Lo Ma Chau / Fu Tian port border closes at 10:30pm.

Train from Hong Kong to Shenzhen (part one)

A paper shop with a worker working at paper sacrifice.Does this shop selling Chinese sausage look like a shop in Spain selling ham? A stall that sells fish and meat balls.

Along the same line, the Mongkok area is beaming with jewelers and luxury watch shops which are mainly frequented by mainlanders. The area no longer feels to me part of Hong Kong that I am familiar with.

And this cannot be more symbolic. The first baby born in Hong Kong in 2012 is to mainland parents. For giving their children permanent right of abode in Hong Kong, mainland mums have been very aggressive, trying all sorts of ways, legal and illegal, to come to HK to give birth, including forcing their way to the emergency ward in the public hospital at the last minute, without prior bookings of deliveries, not only risking the lives of their to be born babies, but also putting extra stress on Hong Kong’s already stretched public health services. The local mums complain that they find it very hard to book delivery because of mainland mums.

Politically, mainland’s presence and influence is even more worrying. A scholar’s recent survey showing a record high proportion of locals identifying themselves as Hong Kongers and a record low proportion of locals identifying themselves as Chinese, has drawn criticism from a Hong Kong based Beijing government official. He told the media right after the survey result was out that, the survey is “unscientific” and “illogical” by citing Hong Kongers and Chinese in parallel. The same scholar was later met with a barrage of criticism and personal attack from mainland-backed newspapers, because he proposed the launch of an online poll of Hong Kongers regarding the “small circle” election of the Chief Executive of HK SAR Government later this year – the top man will be chosen by a 1000-strong election committee only. The blatant interference in academic freedom and the political propaganda orchestrated towards “dissident voices” are simply frightening, evocative of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four.

No wonder a saying in a local drama has caught on, i.e. this city is dying.

To arrive at Ma On Shan Village, the starting point, the easiest way is to take taxi from Ma On Shan MTR station (HK$40). Tell the driver that you want to get to the terminus of the village bus (NR84).

The bus village only operates three times in the morning (8am, 9am, and 10:30am) between the village and Sunshine City Bus Terminal (新港城巴士站)，near the Ma On Shan MTR station. Bus fare is HK$5.

the intersection

There is a staircase next to the village bus terminus. Follow it and start your trekking. After about 20 minutes, you will come to an intersection with a pavilion, the start of the MacLehose Trail. Go the direction of Kei Ling Ha (企嶺下). This also marks the start of the MacLehose Trail’s fourth section. MacLehose Trail is a hiking trail that crosses much of New Territories, named after the longest serving Hong Kong governor Crawford Murray MacLehose.

You will soon start the ascent of a hill after leaving the intersection. The ascent is not steep, not a difficult climb.

the path after leaving the intersection

When you come to the top, you see Pyramid Hill (536m) at your right and Wan Cook Shan (Winding Hill, 592m) at your left. What a view here! The hills further from the Winding Hill are Ma On Shan (Saddle Hill,702M ).

Overlooking Ma On Shan town

Looking back at Pyramid Hill

On Winding Hill, towards Ma An Shan

The weeds at the foothill of Ma On Shan

Winding Hill with Ma On Shan at the edge

At the foothill of Ma On Shan, there is a sign pointing to Shui Long Wo. Follow it or you will have to ascend Ma On Shan. From here it is all downhill.

A glimpse of Sai Kung on the way going downhill

You will walk a tree lined path before you come to a concrete road which is the area of Wong Chuk Yueng (黃竹洋). Turn right and carry on.Then a television antenna tower appears. In its shadow lies the Chuk Yueng Road (竹洋路）.Follow Chuk Yueng Road to go downhill. At the first intersection, turn left to the “Kei Ling Ha Forest Track”. There is a barricade at the start of the track to prevent vehicles from entering. So it is easy to recognize.

the Forest Track leading to Sai Sha Road

It takes about 20-30 minutes before you finally reach Sai Sha Road (西沙路) after passing by a camping site and a bbq site. At Sai Sha road, you can take No. 99 or No. 299 bus to Shatin, or Wu Kai Sha MTR station (all in one direction, with the bus stop at the side of your exit from the MacLehose Trail) or to Sai Kung, the opposite direction.